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...game must be rated a toss-up between two teams for which the stakes are the same--hopes for the Ivy Championship...

Author: By Jonathan P. Carlson, | Title: Cagers Take on Big Green In Key Ivy League Contest | 1/18/1972 | See Source »

...past 15 years, and in most other sports one team is associated with the role of champion (Gymnastics-Cornell, Squash-Harvard and Penn, Swimming-Penn and Yale, Track-Penn.). Hockey might be considered a three-way race between Cornell, Brown, and Harvard; and only wrestling stands as a pure toss...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: A Touch of Garlic | 10/23/1971 | See Source »

...remaining unbeaten teams in the Ivy League, Cornell is obviously going to be tough. But Princeton, a winless team, murdered Cornell in total offense last Saturday and only lost because of fumbles and interceptions. Cornell is a slight favorite on paper, but the game should be rated a toss-up. Ivy Standings W L Cornell 1 0 Dartmouth 1 0 Harvard 1 0 Yale 1 0 Columbia 1 1 Penn 1 1 Brown 0 2 Princeton...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Cornell's Marinaro Rates Taut Defense | 10/16/1971 | See Source »

...book has a humane, almost joyful candor that might well assist a perplexed parent. But as for critics of sex education, it is a toss-up which will disturb them more, the permissive attitudes expressed in the text or some of Will McBride's black-and-white photos. Among the picture subjects are couples during intercourse, erect penises and ejaculation; there are also less explicit, sometimes charming evocations of conjugal and family love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sex Dictionary | 5/17/1971 | See Source »

Meanwhile, over in Winthrop, Joe Stiles refused to let the frantic race upset him. Stiles is the athletic secretary. "I feel a sense of challenge, and I think it's good for the program," Stiles said. He said the outcome is a toss...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Winthrop, Quincy Eye Straus Cup | 5/14/1971 | See Source »

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